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Beyond Words
Selected Writings of Rabbi
Meir Kahane,
1960-1990
Volume 7
BUT, OF COURSE
Written January 1990
And in connection with the spiritual destruction of the Jew
in Israel, consider this.
Can any thinking Jew really be surprised? Is there anyone with an honest and analytical
mind who cannot see that this is but a logical, normal extension of history?
On December 18, 1989, the 29th soldier of the
Israel Defense Forces – within the previous nine months – committed
suicide. Almost every week, another
non-army teenager commits suicide. And
Yitzhak Navon, Minister of Education, and the Knesset and the news media and
the artists and intellectuals of the Zionist state that is in a state of
collapse climb into their tower of babbling to dissect and analyze and
discover: What is wrong?
With the announcement of a projected large Soviet Jewish
Aliyah (a thing which may or may not eventually be), a local Jerusalem
neighborhood thug who is a Labor Party “neighborhood activist” immediately
called the expected Aliyah “a punishment,” and demanded that the neighborhoods be
given the money instead, and all the professional Zionists wrung their hands
and held their heads and moaned: What is wrong?
The number of Israelis leaving the country climbs annually
at a steady pace, and the number of those who would love to leave is many times
greater. The average Jewish youth in
Israel is so devoid of Jewish knowledge as to challenge the “best” of the
assimilated Jewish youth in the West.
The culture in the country is Western, rock and roll, hard rock, discos,
drugs, drinking, sex before army service ( much before army service),
and the main thing is that life should be a kef (roughly, “a ball”).
And the Navons and intellectuals and the writers and the
politicians and the news media sit and stand and gather and grope and grasp and
feel and reach out and search and puzzle and babble solutions to the problem: What
is wrong?
What is wrong?
Dear Jew, what is right?
What is wrong? The
very basis of your state, your secular Zionist state, is wrong.
For if the truth were known and if honesty ruled the mind
waves, it would be clear that on the day that secular Zionism was born it began
to die. For anyone who believed that
ripping Judaism from Zionism would leave a healthy secular nationalist was
worse, than foolish. Zionism without Judaism
removes from itself the only positive reason for its raison d’etre. For being Jewish without religion is nothing
more than illogical and nothing less than tribal racism. If the Czar would have been a kind and
benevolent despot and if France would have been more kindly disposed to Dreyfus
– would secular Zionism ever have succeeded?
If Christians in enlightened Europe would have gladly welcomed Jews into
their ranks so that Herzl would have had no need to doubt that Jewish
conversion to Christianity would have succeeded (thus allowing him to
cheerfully advocate it), would there have been a Jewish state?
It was negative forces, hatred of the Jews, not positive
ones of healthy pride and certainty, that gave birth to secular Zionism. Its father was pogroms and its mother
Jew-hatred, and the illegitimate child came into the world by accident of
history.
Of course, the generation that suffered anti-Semitism was a
passionately “Zionist” one. Not only did
they need a Jewish state to escape Jew-hatred, but despite their cutting off
their bonds with Judaism, they were products of it. The most atheistic of them had gone to
cheder. The most agnostic had tasted Torah learning. Of course they were “Zionists,” Judaism made
them so.
But as they passed on and their children took over and then their
children who knew not Judaism nor the goy, the sole basis for their
being Jewish – hatred of the Jew – was no longer relevant. The young Jew in Israel was no longer Jewish;
he was now an “Israeli” (just like the Arab and Druse) and carried with him all
the emptiness of a hybrid, Western Hellenized culture that carried nothing
specifically Jewish about it.
And since his sole identity _Israeliness – was an accident
of geography, and since that meant that he was doomed to live in a country with
a perpetual draft and annual army reserve service and potential wars and high
taxes, and he had relatives who lived in Los Angeles and Forest Hills who had
none of that – the inevitable death of the doomed was merely hastened.
They are confused; they are lost, wandering souls. They are victims of secular leaders who are as
lost as they are. Secular Zionism.
And so Amos Mansdorf Israel’s tennis idol, who makes the
Hellenists who would not know a Rashi from a Vilna Gaon drool in pagan,
gentilized delight, bristles at an anti-apartheid rally at his tennis match in
New Zealand, and brays that sports and “politics” do not mix and that had he
lived at the time, he would have played in Nazi Germany. The sabra brayeth like the ox he is and in
glorious realization of the verse, “And they exchanged their glory for the
design of an ox that eateth grass” (Psalms 106:20).
And they condemn him!
Those who made the ox, the golden tennis calf, condemn him! And was there ever greater arrogance and
brazenness and more blatant blindness as to the real culprit?
Amos Mansdorf, the empty-headed sabra, is the direct
result of the secular Zionist that has succeeded magnificently, stupendously,
beyond its wildest nightmare-dreams. And
those who wished to free the Jew from his archaic and destructive religion; who
wished to create “the last of the Jews and the first of the Hebrews”; who
wished to be as all the nations – have their wish. Amos Mansdorf
is not a criminal – he is the product of the secular Zionist Frankensteins
who have made him. He is their brilliant
success.
Just outside the Jewish agency building in Jerusalem is a
little triangle-square which was given an official name some time back. It was named “The Zionist Movement
Square.” Fitting. For streets and squares are inevitably named
after dead people.
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